Jacob (Yaakov) Birnbaum (10 December 1926 – 9 April 2014, aged 87) was the German-born founder of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) and other human rights organizations. Because the SSSJ, at the time of its founding, in 1964, was the first initiative to address the plight of Soviet Jewry, he is regarded as the father of the Movement to Free Soviet Jewry.[1] His father was Solomon Birnbaum and grandfather Nathan Birnbaum.[2]
- ^ "Soviet Jewry Activist Jacob Birnbaum Dies at 87" (10 April 2014). JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) via The Forward.
- ^ Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred, eds. (2007). "Birnbaum, Solomon Asher". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. p. 716. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.